Poll: Majority Of Likely Voters Back Obamacare Repeal; GOP Leaders "Committed To Its Repeal"

Repeal ObamaCare

National Journal reports today, “Just over half of Americans likely to vote in next week’s midterms want the next Congress to repeal this year’s health care overhaul if Republicans gain power on Capitol Hill, according to a new poll, a dramatic rebuke to a sitting president and freshly minted statute. Fifty-one percent of voters most likely to vote support taking the new health care law off the books if the GOP takes the House and Senate, or either, while 41 percent oppose repeal, according to the latest Society for Human Resource Management/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll, conducted with the Pew Research Center.” Interestingly, among registered voters, 53% of independents support repeal, and nearly 1 in 4 Democrats (23%) do as well.

During the debate over their unpopular health care legislation, Democrats insisted that people would eventually like it. Back in July, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) actually claimed, “Remember, any poll you see today, the majority of the American people support what we did here with health care.” Of course, that wasn’t the case then, nor was it at the time the bill was passed, nor is it today, considering the National Journal poll. In March, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said on Meet the Press, “As people learn about the bill, it’s going to be more and more popular. By November, those who voted for health care will find it an asset, those who voted against it will find it a liability. . . . As people learn what’s actually in the bill, six months from now at election time this will be a plus because the parade of horribles — particularly the worry that the average middle-class has that this will affect them negatively — will have vanished and they’ll see that this will affect them positively.” But the parade of horribles has only continued in the half year the bill has been law, and nearly every week Americans learn about another Democrat health care promise running up against reality. No wonder a recent Politico headline read, “Democrats run away from health care.”

Republicans explained all along that the Democrat bill would raise taxes, raise premiums, cut Medicare, and increase health costs. They warned it was a flawed, bloated bill that the public had rejected. But Democrats passed the bill anyway, over the objections of the American people, congratulating themselves the whole way. Since then, Republicans have made clear that the bill must be repealed and replaced.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell reiterated last week, “While we were unable to block the Democrats from passing the health spending bill — the single worst piece of legislation that’s passed since I’ve been in the Senate — the Republican leadership in the House and Senate is committed to its repeal. While Democrats will filibuster our efforts, and if we’re successful the President will veto, I believe we should give them that opportunity. We should vote, again, for repeal. Americans have spoken out, loud and clear, and we heard them. Repeal is part of the Pledge to America, and the Republican leadership is united in that effort.”

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